You and me? We're in this together!

It can be quite jarring to hear words like "you're the expert on yourself", which whilst, yes, I believe wholly, it also sort of begs the question "well, what do I need a Counsellor for then?" When you decide to come for therapy, you kinda want an expert to help you, am I right?

Well here's where a little further definition of expertise comes in. Counsellors can be experts in helping you to find your own answers from within. Gently listening and understanding, hearing the gaps in what you're describing and asking questions to guide you back... to look under those stones, to examine what you believe from a slightly different point of view. That's the expertise in full effect!

Personally, I believe that the answers come from a solid foundational working relationship between you and me...

Together we create an understanding that makes solutions effortlessly arrive, co-authored by our spending time together. The healing energy lives somewhere outside of us both, and yet we both tap into it throughout our sessions. So it becomes a sharing of sorts, where we both "throw into the pot", to brew up something unique to you, shaped and moulded by the intersection of the genuineness of our connection, measured against what you actually want to achieve with the backup of a little of what I understand.

If you are the expert of yourself, together we are the experts of your solutions, and we both play a part in bringing them to light.